Police were able to identify Brian Michael Ramirez Jr., 28, using fingerprints. He faces six counts each of felony burglary and vandalism, according to Riverside County (Calif.) court records. He has pleaded not guilty in one case but has not yet entered an initial plea in the other.

Court documents filed by local police investigators say Ramirez slipped into apartment complex laundry rooms, then pried open the washing machine coin boxes and swiped the piles of coins inside. In the process of stealing the quarters, Ramirez allegedly did more than $9,000 worth of damage.

The biggest theft occurred at a large apartment complex in Palm Springs, Calif., from which Ramirez allegedly stole more than $2,600 in quarters on a single night in early September. He has also been accused of three smaller burglaries at another building, Palm Spring Villas, where he's accused of stealing between $100 and $400 each time.

The burglary spree ended in mid-October, when Cathedral City, California, police caught Ramirez forcing open laundry machines at yet another apartment complex. Palm Springs police later tied Ramirez to the prior burglaries by matching him to fingerprints pulled off of washing machines or dryers at the scene.

So, was the laundry money laundered? It’s not clear. Court records don’t say what happened to all those missing quarters. Brian Ramirez is accused of stealing more than 13,000 coins, which would weigh 170 pounds and stack more than 78 feet high.

Ramirez has a prior conviction for felony burglary and multiple convictions for petty theft all within the past two years.